Where: Tehama County, California (40.0° N, 122.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.1° N, 56.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Buchia aff. B. okensis other zone, Late/Upper Tithonian (145.1 - 143.1 Ma)
• Late Tithonian. From upper few hundred feet of Jurassic sequence.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; massive sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Gerald C. Young in 1957; reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay and D. L. Jones. 1970. Ammonites from the Buchia zones in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 647-B:B1-B59 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225861: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 06.06.2022
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Parodontoceras reedi Anderson 1945 ammonite |